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Gloria Steinem: Aborting my baby ‘gave me my life’
life site news ^ | November 5, 2015 | Katie Yoder

Posted on 09/03/2026 9:35:10 PM PDT by Morgana

Gloria Steinem doesn’t have her facts straight, but don’t expect the media to call her out on it.

On Tuesday, feminist activist Gloria Steinem appeared as a guest on PBS’ Tavis Smiley. During the show, Steinem praised abortion for giving her “my life” and bashed the controversy surrounding Planned Parenthood’s practice of aborted baby parts. She blamed the “attack” on Planned Parenthood on everything from the “ultra-right wing” to “patriarchy” and a “long-term racist system.”

Host Tavis Smiley hailed Steinem as a “feminist icon” and “renowned social activist” before asking about her newly published book, My Life on the Road.

From the beginning of the interview, Steinem recalled her own abortion as a young woman. Her life depended on the death of her unborn baby, she said – albeit phrased a bit differently.

“It gave me my life,” she insisted of the abortion. “I mean, I wouldn't have been able to live my life otherwise.”

Her story prompted Smiley to ask about the Planned Parenthood controversy following the videos released by the Center for Medical Progress. “What you make all these years later then, of what many regard as an attack on Planned Parenthood?” he wanted to know.

Steinem began by praising Planned Parenthood as “the single-most-popular supported organization” in the United States because “it has helped so, so, so many people.”

“Something like one in five,” she added (according to Planned Parenthood’s own numbers, that’s actually one in five women).

Besides, Steinem continued, with Planned Parenthood, “only about 1% of what they do has anything to do with abortion.”

That stat was wrong too, according to Planned Parenthood’s numbers. Planned Parenthood lists abortion as 3% of total services. According to a Washington Post fact-checker, that number is misleadingly low.

Steinem’s claims only got worse, as she “explained” what inspired the recent “attack” on Planned Parenthood after videos revealed its practice with aborted baby parts.

“[The attack] is part of an ultra right-wing attempt to restore the basis of patriarchy or a male-dominant system and the necessity of a long-term racist system which is controlling reproduction,” she began. “And to control reproduction, you have to control the bodies of women.”

Because the criticism of Planned Parenthood could never be about what the pro-life movement says it is: saving unborn lives from death and ghoulish desecration.

What’s more, she demanded, women have every right to take over the world from men through reproduction. Steinem continued:

“So there is a huge backlash against what is a majority opinion in this country that this is an individual human right. It's part of bodily integrity. The government shouldn’t intervene. Politicians don't make this decision. But there are people on the other side who firmly believe the contrary and that this is – and it is, in fact – the beginning of the hierarchy they believe in.”

Smiley chimed in again to ask Steinem about the “debates about reproductive freedom and about women's rights” led in “our body politic by men to begin with.”

(At least she didn’t reiterate how the pope caused global warming by “forcing women to have children.”)

Steinem again pointed to “authority” and “control” tied-in with democracy and nationalism.

“So the question is, who controls a woman's body? Herself, which seems to me a requisite of it's a basic human right. It's a requisite of democracy. But without controlling reproduction, you lose control of nationalism, which has two pillars, which is territory and population. You lose the ability to decide how many workers, how many soldiers, what class, what race and so on.”

On abortion, Steinem concluded that “it's helpful to realize that we are not dealing with human nature here,” but with a “political system.”

And, you know, human lives, Ms. Steinem. Freedom based on the destruction of others’ liberty isn’t freedom at all.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History; Society
KEYWORDS: abortion; gloria; gloriasteinem; jewhater; plannedparenthood; prolife; steinem

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Another story from the past of MS Gloria.

In the coming days she will be portrayed as a saint in the media so I want to remind everyone of her real past.

1 posted on 09/03/2026 9:35:10 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

She sounds like a Vampiress.


2 posted on 09/03/2026 9:36:12 PM PDT by Truthsearcher
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To: Morgana

Cannot stand this beotch! She lied to generations of young girls and women to push her feminazi cr@p.


3 posted on 09/03/2026 9:37:38 PM PDT by antceecee ( )
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To: antceecee

Even in the 1980’s, and I was pro choice I could not stand her.


4 posted on 09/03/2026 9:39:39 PM PDT by Morgana ( The more I get to know people, the more I realize why Noah only let animals on the boat.)
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To: Morgana

Wickedness in this woman, worshipping to the end the very evil spirit that stole her future from her.

“Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.” - Psalm 127:3


5 posted on 09/03/2026 9:40:36 PM PDT by captmar-vell
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To: Morgana

So, was she her own Darwinian DNA dead end?

If so, fitting…..


6 posted on 09/03/2026 9:53:11 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Morgana

Everything she did was selfish self promotion. She was a complete and total liar.


7 posted on 09/03/2026 9:59:46 PM PDT by antceecee ( )
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To: Morgana

Her baby is in heaven, and she’s in hell. It’s called justice.


8 posted on 09/03/2026 10:16:12 PM PDT by roving
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To: Morgana

Took away a life to get hers...how convenient....selfish little person. Maybe Ms. Steinem will be allowed to see the baby in Heaven from her lower vantage point.


9 posted on 09/03/2026 10:16:26 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: Morgana

What can I say about a supposedly smart woman too stupid to figure out birth control.


10 posted on 09/03/2026 10:18:14 PM PDT by CaptainK ("No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up” )
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To: CaptainK

Her abortion happened in the late 1960’s. I know the pill had just come out but don’t know how easily assessable it was.


11 posted on 09/03/2026 10:27:28 PM PDT by Morgana ( The more I get to know people, the more I realize why Noah only let animals on the boat.)
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To: CaptainK

Her’s and all the ones she helped kill.


12 posted on 09/03/2026 10:28:45 PM PDT by Morgana ( The more I get to know people, the more I realize why Noah only let animals on the boat.)
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To: Morgana

Uhhhhhhh.......yyyeahhh, no, you’re mother gave you your life I’ll delete the rest of my comment myself because the mods would delete it anyway.


13 posted on 09/03/2026 10:32:00 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
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To: Texas Eagle
from Imgflip Meme Generator

14 posted on 09/03/2026 10:37:53 PM PDT by Morgana ( The more I get to know people, the more I realize why Noah only let animals on the boat.)
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To: Morgana

I wonder how much of a kick back she got from the sale of her baby’s parts.....................

We all would like to see charges laid against planed parenthood owners and operators involving the murder babies and the resale of their body parts.....

It’s illegal but they cover them selves by saying its Clinic Reimbursements, processing fees.....

Firms reach $7.8-million settlement over allegations of selling fetal tissue

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-fetal-tissue-20171209-story.html

‘Intact fetal cadavers’ make the most money

https://wng.org/sift/intact-fetal-cadavers-make-the-most-money-1617252276

Planned Parenthood Makes as Much as $23 Million Annually From Selling Aborted Baby Body Parts

https://www.lifenews.com/2015/07/24/planned-parenthood-makes-as-much-as-23-million-annually-from-selling-aborted-baby-body-parts/


15 posted on 09/03/2026 11:28:36 PM PDT by BFW
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To: Morgana

She never heard of a condom?


16 posted on 09/03/2026 11:40:49 PM PDT by CaptainK ("No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up” )
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To: Morgana

Tonight she’s facing Christ, having to answer for this.


17 posted on 09/03/2026 11:41:54 PM PDT by Trump_Triumphant ( “They recognized Him in the breaking of the Bread”)
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To: Getready

From the internet:

“In ancient Canaanite religion, worshipers sacrificed to Baal—sometimes offering their firstborn children—believing it would secure agricultural fertility, community survival, and the continuation of life.”


18 posted on 09/03/2026 11:49:12 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant - Never Fearful)
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To: Getready

“I mean, I wouldn’t have been able to live my life otherwise.”

Maybe that gal on trial for killing her two children can use this line of reasoning as a new defense? Maybe she can call it self defense?


19 posted on 09/03/2026 11:51:48 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant - Never Fearful)
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To: Morgana
I wouldn't have been able to "live my life" if I hadn't knocked off Granny!

Was finally able to sell the family farm and live a life of luxury off the proceeds!

Sneaking up from behind her and giving her a wallop over the head with a shovel "gave me life."

Same twisted logic!

Regards,

20 posted on 09/04/2026 12:38:20 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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